Industrial Robot Milling for Artistic Sculpture Creation

End-to-End Digital Sculpting
Thanks to MecDATA SCP for showcasing the complete workflow in modern digital sculpture creation for the arts sector. The process starts with a 3D scan of a clay-modeled human head, capturing its surface detail and geometry for digital processing.

Phone-Scanned Foam Stock
As Rafael Escobar of MecDATA shows in the video, the large foam block glued up for the job was captured in 3D with Polycam on a mobile phone. That scan became the workpiece in ENCY CAD/CAM software, so toolpaths follow the real stock instead of an idealised box. In Rhino the bust was positioned inside the scanned block to check that it fits.

Programming and Simulation in ENCY Robot
In ENCY Robot the job was built from 2D contouring, a series of level roughing passes and a rotary finishing pass, and the KUKA robot cell was simulated against the scanned stock. ENCY Robot and MachineMaker enable accurate programming and execution of advanced robotic milling tasks for sculptural work in the arts.

Robot Milling in Action
The same program then ran on the real six-axis robot, milling the foam block into the detailed sculpture. This approach, typical in rapid prototyping and model fabrication, highlights the integration of digital and robotic manufacturing technologies.